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Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by djmashko2 »

bmitc wrote: post #43
francislavoie wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. Here's the saga: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632947160416149504 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705

There were front page posts on this earlier today, but both were flagged and buried by Hacker News. Thread on person of the year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35056098 Thread on Twitter saga: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35055839

Pretty disappointing to see all of these stories being dropped from the front page.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by wedn3sday »

hintymad wrote: post #80

[flagged]

Ironically, weather the guy did his job or not has absolutely no material affect on the discussion of his termination! He could have been the absolute best or worst employee in the history of the world, and the way twitter/elon handled this would be terrible regardless. You somehow managed to find the one thing that _absolutely does not matter_ and fixate on it while wrapping yourself in the flag of "I only care about logic."

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by rvbissell »

wood_spirit wrote: post #9
francislavoie wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. Here's the saga: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632947160416149504 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705

It’s sad but he’ll probably forever now be remembered as “that guy who got publicly fired on Twitter by Musk” rather than Iceland’s person of the year 2022 and all the great philanthropy he’s done :(

I dunno, "Publicly fired by Elon!™" is a strong resume flex.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by danso »

nemo44x wrote: post #155
asddubs wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I chuckled at the weirdly heavy emphasis on that part too, but I think what they're getting at is that elon accused someone who's in a wheelchair of faking their disability. this isn't just carpal tunnel where it's effectively invisible and you just have to take someones word for it (which to be clear, I'm not saying is fair game to just publicly accuse people of faking on a whim)

I guess Musk was asking why he claims he can't type due to his disability but yet manages to tweet all day. That's probably a lot different than claiming someone is faking a disability.

It doesn’t help Musk’s case that he appears unaware of typing-by-dictation software, which is efficient for prose but not necessarily for coding

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by dang »

bmitc wrote: post #43
francislavoie wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. Here's the saga: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632947160416149504 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705

There were front page posts on this earlier today, but both were flagged and buried by Hacker News. Thread on person of the year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35056098 Thread on Twitter saga: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35055839

They were flagged—correctly—by users. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060935.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by dang »

Pxtl wrote: post #181

Flagged again. Can't help but notice what kind of political bend we see in the things that get flagged here.

As one is far more likely to notice what one dislikes or disagrees with, this kind of perception is unreliable.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by bmitc »

dang wrote: post #215
bmitc wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There were front page posts on this earlier today, but both were flagged and buried by Hacker News. Thread on person of the year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35056098 Thread on Twitter saga: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35055839

They were flagged—correctly—by users. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060935 .

One of the posted articles had nothing to do with Elon Musk. It still got flagged. So I disagree that it was flagged correctly.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by dang »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #199
93po wrote: post #194

I wish Elon related stories would get banned on HN. The comment sections are always complete wastelands and I hate feeling compelled to constantly correct space-man-bad takes that have no basis in reality. I'm done.

It's odd that you posted this. I read your posts on this thread, and you're basically just angry that people don't agree with you. Welcome to the Internet.

Please don't cross into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by dang »

bmitc wrote: post #218
dang wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They were flagged—correctly—by users. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060935 .

One of the posted articles had nothing to do with Elon Musk. It still got flagged. So I disagree that it was flagged correctly.

It has everything to do with the current rage drama ̶,̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶s̶.

One test for this would be: is the discussion substantially different in that thread? The answer is clearly no.

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